what is love

love does not make you insane, love is one of the most basic of human emotions, we have always had love, we have not always had the same social mores and norms that define sanity. love is the most sane thing you can feel and act on.

love does not make you do stupid things. love makes you do the right things. love makes you want to do the things that make the object of your affection happy. love makes it difficult to do things that won't. love makes you want to do great things for yourself as well, so that the object of your affection, if the love is requited, is happy for you and takes pride in you.

love does not require compromise through obligation, love makes compromise happen through desire. love doesn't make you feel it necessary to compromise beyond jeopardizing your own happiness and health. love makes you compromise, naturally, from wanting to see the person you love happy.

love is sharing, not leeching.

love is a privilege, not a hang up.

love is not about satisfying your own desires. that's lust. love is satisfying the desires of the other person.

love's only requirement is for the object of your affection be happy. if that doesn't include you, so be it. you should be happy (albeit sad at your own loss) to provide them that space.

love would not stand for intentional hurt or pain or uncomfortableness. love makes you never, ever want to make the other person feel unsafe, uncomfortable, hurt, pain, guilt, anger. under any circumstances. even if it means you cannot be with the person you love. even if it means you never get to see the person you love again. even if it means you're just to be friends. you should be happy, blissfully happy to get what you can if you truly, truly love that person.

love is containable. if it weren't i'd explode sometime in the next six years.

Currently listening: Best of Haddaway: What Is Love By Haddaway Release date: By 05 January, 2004

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